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Did God command the Israelites to make him burnt offerings? · Apolog

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Did God command the Israelites to make him burnt offerings?

Exodus includes explicit sacrificial commands, while Jeremiah denies such commands in connection with the departure from Egypt.

Textual conflict: Interpretive tension; The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
Importance: Major; A major event or claim with wider implications.

Jeremiah denies sacrificial commands at the exodus while Exodus records them, but the precise scope of the departure-day timing qualification remains uncertain.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.

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God commands burnt offerings in the Exodus narrative

We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.

Exodus 8:27

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

Exodus 10:25

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

Exodus 20:24

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head. And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the Lord: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Exodus 29:16-18

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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God denies commanding sacrifices when bringing the ancestors from Egypt

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

Jeremiah 7:21-22

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:Jeremiah 7

Understanding the contradiction

Exodus 20:24 commands an altar and burnt offerings of sheep and oxen. Exodus 29:16-18 gives detailed instructions for killing and burning a ram. Earlier, Exodus 8:27 and Exodus 10:25 connect leaving Egypt with sacrifice to God, though those verses anticipate rather than quote the later instructions.

Jeremiah 7:21-22 has God deny speaking to or commanding the ancestors about burnt offerings or sacrifices in the day he brought them from Egypt. That directly challenges a sacrificial account of the founding deliverance. The timing phrase matters: Jeremiah's denial is attached to the exodus, while the detailed commands occur later in its narrative sequence. The tension is between that broad retrospective denial and the surrounding sacrificial tradition, not proof that the quotations date each instruction to the identical calendar day.

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